Demystifying nuclear power is taking a critical look at nuclear power generation, a manipulative industry with seedy ties to government entities such as the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) in the United States and the Nuclear Regulation Authority (NRA) in Japan. By uncovering nuclear industry lies, demystifying nuclear power reveals the danger of nuclear waste and radiation from atomic energy to people’s health and the environment worldwide. Growing solar and renewable energy technology is a cost effective, carbon-free solution for our energy future that provides safer and cleaner power production than nuclear energy.
Join us tomorrow night Thursday, March 10th for a timely discussion about Ukraine and the commemoration of Fukushima Dai-ichi. We will examine the dangers of atomic power reactors in a war zone and also talk about how we work with our colleague Dr. Marco Kaltofen to study how minute microparticles of radioactivity spreads…
Read MoreThe release of more than one million tons of radioactive water from Fukushima Dai-ichi into the Pacific was approved last week by the government of Japan. Claiming that these discharges would be harmless, Japan’s government said that TEPCO had no other alternative…
Read MoreIn Japanese, the words Kaku no Hizumi 核の歪み translate to Nuclear Distortion. For Arnie and me, Kaku no Hizumi 核の歪み / Nuclear Distortion is the absolute truth about the aftermath of Japan’s Fukushima Meltdowns – 10 Years After…
Read MoreFor our sixth Nuclear Spring Series installment, we bring you the latest CCTV Nuclear Free Future interview. Margaret Harrington invited Fairewinds board member and fellow Vermonter Chiho Kaneko, Arnie, and Maggie to discuss the ongoing fallout and unending crisis fostered by the March 11, 2011, Fukushima meltdowns…
Read MoreGovernments worldwide and the atomic power and subsequent weapons industries claim that almost no one died or was made ill from the meltdowns at TMI, Chernobyl, and Fukushima. They also claim that there are no lasting health or environmental impacts due to these five major meltdowns…
Read MoreToday, we add another post and discussion to our new Nuclear Spring Series. The three meltdowns at the Fukushima Dai-ichi atomic power reactor site on March 11, 2011, has changed our personal and professional lives forever…
Read MoreDid you know that there have been five nuclear meltdowns during the last 42 years, and all of them have happened during springtime? Fukushima Dai-ichi on March 11th (2011), Three Mile Island on March 28th (1979), and Chernobyl on April 28th (1986). Welcome to Fairewinds Nuclear Spring Series…
Read MoreOn this 10th commemoration of the Fukushima Dai-ichi disaster in Japan, our thoughts and hearts continue to be with those impacted by both the ongoing radioactive contamination throughout Japan as well as those permanently displaced since March 11, 2011…
Read MoreAs we approach the 10th commemoration of Japan’s March 11, 2011, Fukushima Dai-ichi triple meltdowns, organizations around the globe, including environmental groups, nonprofits (like us), engineering and pronuclear organizations, and media organizations like Japan’s Nippon TV, will release new information.
Read MoreToday, as highlighted in a quick post-two-weeks ago, Fairewinds releases the data and links to the Journal of Environmental Engineering Science peer-reviewed article…
Read MoreFairewinds ongoing scientific research with Dr. Marco Kaltofen of WPI has been peer-reviewed and accepted for publication in the Journal of Environmental Engineering Science. As soon as the Journal of Environmental Engineering Science has an online preprint link available, Fairewinds will release details and a link to the publication…
Read MoreToday, Fairewinds is talking about history –– world history and herstory about the choices governments make when waging war and not planning for peace. On August 6, 1945, during World War II, the United States was the only nation in the world to unleash the horror of the Atomic Bomb on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and then on Nagasaki just three days later…
Read MoreToday, Fairewinds is sharing several very personal essays and thoughts on our Demystifying Nuclear Power Blog and via Newsletter, Twitter, and Facebook. Several weeks ago, our friend and colleague, Dr. Norma Field, professor emeritus at the University of Chicago, published one of the best overviews any of us at Fairewinds has read about the impact of the meltdowns at the Fukushima…
Read MoreI have never experienced so many people wearing protective masks on the Shinkansen high-speed train, as I did at the end of January 2020, when I traveled from northern Japan to the airport in Tokyo. The news of the coronavirus outbreak was just starting to dominate the media…
Read MoreThe six atomic power reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear site were severely damaged 9-years ago when a Richter 9 earthquake in the Pacific Ocean occurred at 2 p.m. on March 11, 2011 ravaging the nuclear reactors, flooding safety systems, and causing three atomic power meltdowns…
Read MoreAt Least 14 levees broke in Fukushima Prefecture. News outlets worldwide are reporting that at least 66 residents of Japan have died as a result of Typhoon Hagibis. Our hearts reach out to the people of Japan and the families of the deceased.
Read MoreFukushima Daiichi’s radioactive waste is on the move again as Hagibis, the worst typhoon to hit Japan since 1958, dropped 30” of rain in 24 hours and millions of people were forced to evacuate from the flooding.
Read MoreRecently, after Forbes Magazine published an opinion piece entitled, It Sounds Crazy, But Fukushima, Chernobyl, And Three Mile Island Show Why Nuclear Is Inherently Safe, a number of Forbes’ readers called and continue to write Fairewinds Energy Education to ask us if this opinion piece is true. Quite frankly, the article is an infomercial for the nuclear industry: it twists data in order to paint a rosy picture of nuclear energy.
Read MoreTo begin Part 2, let’s talk about the scientific studies that Dr. Marco Kaltofen and I began together back in 2012. Before the ongoing catastrophe created by the Fukushima meltdowns, the maximum allowable radiation exposure to civilians worldwide emanating from commercial atomic power reactors was 100 millirem per year (1 milli Sievert per year).
Read MoreAs we prepare for the eighth remembrance of the March 11, 2011 earthquake, tsunami and triple meltdowns at Fukushima Daiichi, Fairewinds is ever mindful of what is currently happening in Japan.
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